Building Teamwork in Organizations

Why does teamwork in organizations break down, or never get established in
the first place?

Anyone who works in a team setting knows the ideas and benefits
encouraging us to work in teams. . . maximizing people's strengths, minimizing
their weaknesses.

The great CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch wrote in his book On
War:

Detailed planning necessarily failed due to inevitable frictions encountered,
chance events, imperfections in execution, and the independent will of the
opposition. . . Strategy was not a lengthy action plan. It was an evolution of a
central idea through continually changing circumstances. --Jack Welch

Knowing the benefits of teamwork why do you think it breaks down so often?